Awards and Honors: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Highest civilian award National Order of Merito de Comuneros, Paraguay, on September 13, 2012.

Sri Sri was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Gujarat Technological University in Ahmedabad, India on January 19, 2013.

Tiradentes Medal the highest honor from Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil on September 03, 2012.

The Culture in Balance award was presented to Sri Sri for his commitment to global cultural balance on October 10, 2009.

World Venerates Wisdom

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's vision of a violence-free, stress-free society through the reawakening of human values has been recognized and appreciated the world over. Sri Sri has been honored for his contribution to humanity in the fields of conflict resolution, peace promotion and for promoting human values. The awards and felicitations bestowed on Sri Sri celebrate the causes that he champions as well as his philosophy of a one world family.

Communities from different backgrounds and faiths have joined in Sri Sri's mission of creating a stress-free, violence-free world. When Sri Sri was awarded the Culture in Balance award in October 2009, he said: "I share this award with all those people who stand for a violence-free and stress-free society. This award is not for a person or personality, but for a principle that stands for the ideal of a one world family and cultural plurality."

Many countries from around the world have honored Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. A few of the countries include:

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Days

While several cities in the US and Canada have also honored him by declaring a day during his visits to the cities as 'Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Day', some countries have bestowed him the honor of 'illustrious visitor'. Washington DC honored his visit to the city in 2007 by marking that week as 'Human Values Week'. He has also been accorded honorary citizenship by some US and Canadian cities. In 2006, during his visit to Jaipur, India, Sri Sri was handed the symbolic key to the city by the Mayor of Jaipur.